Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology (RECSM)
The RECSM is a valuable resource of expert knowledge for people working with survey methodology in the academic, private, and public sectors. In fact, it is a combination of two research groups, which have been heavily involved in the European Social Survey (ESS), an academically driven social survey supported by the European Commission's Framework Programmes, the European Science Foundation and national funding bodies in each EU country. This survey has been going on since 2001 in 25-30 countries on a biannual basis. Because of its high standards of quality, the ESS received in 2005 the European Descartes Research Prize for outstanding collaborative research.